A handwritten draft with drawings by the writer Eduard Uspensky

Handwritten draft with drawings

Eduard Uspensky is a Russian writer, playwright and screenwriter, author of children's books, TV presenter.

The most famous of Eduard Uspensky's stories were the stories about Uncle Fyodor, Matroskin and Sharik, as well as about the crocodile Gene and his friends. One of the heroes of these books, Cheburashka, became a symbol of the Russian Olympic team in the 2000s, but became famous much earlier. Back in Soviet times, cartoons about crocodile Gene and Cheburashka were translated into 20 languages and shown in Japan, Sweden, Czechoslovakia and other countries.

Ouspensky himself wrote scripts for animated films based on his works: "Three from Prostokvashino", "Crocodile Gena and Cheburashka", "Uncle Au", "Baba Yaga against!", "Plasticine crow", "Antoshka" and others. It is known that the writing of scripts was not limited to. The writer often came to the studio and supervised the process of creating cartoons.

In the seventies, Eduard Uspensky took part in the creation of programs for children: "ABVGDeika", "Good night, kids!", "Baby Monitor".

Draft text:
«1.
Two Africans. No names yet#nbsp;
They live in separate stalls.#nbsp;
Only trunks fly over the partition
They communicate with each other.#nbsp;

Toy#nbsp;— tire from #nbsp;
Truck wheels.#nbsp;
(indistinct)#nbsp;— holds the trunk,#nbsp;
So that it doesn't go anywhere.

They introduce you to the arena.#nbsp;
Dress. Walking in an embrace with an elephant.#nbsp;
And #nbsp;just in case there is a rope around your neck
3-4 people are being held.#nbsp;

A little bit that #nbsp;— panic: beeping,
and #nbsp; rushing, not #nbsp; sorting out where.#nbsp;

They take me to watch him rehearse
The old elephant.

2.
When brought in a can #nbsp;
more hot porridge
They worry, they try to be rude
They eat, squint with pleasure

Hay is slapped on the legs
"shaking off the ground",
They throw it on your back
having eaten up to a blade of grass everything on the floor,
collect "supplies" from the head and back,
his and the neighbor 's
Then they drink tea.

Turning around -#nbsp;
Two faces peek out of the darkness
and trunks, empty or with bundles of hay,
Waving at someone,
It's like they're coming from us.
on the circus train.

3.
imp, cubs, hippopotamus, author, (inaudible), chimpanzees from the booklet, hares, cubs, baby elephants
She used to live in our zoo
Then I realized (inaudible)
An old chimpanzee monkey in a glass house.;
Vega.
I wanted to draw it.
He invited himself to visit. I'm standing,
I scribble with a pencil on the paper.
Vega looks interested
He asks with gestures - give it to me
Takes paper, pencil
And thinking about something for a long time,
Looking at me for a long time;
writes, outputs.
She wrote it, hands it to me - read it,
I look at the scribbles, twist them,
But I can't read it. What's going on here?
Vega looks disappointed
At me - "Did not understand"?
She sighed and ate my pencil.
I'm ashamed, and now I'm all #nbsp;
I'm trying to understand
Not to read, only hope -#nbsp;
In the eyes to read
It's clear from the eyes.

About what
What did you want to say?
I can't make out the scribble
It's better to try to read in the eyes.

The elephant only glances at me occasionally."